The one I'm currently in, software development. edit: I'm a relatively new arrival here, been paid to do it for ~1.5 years now, so I haven't yet had the opportu

The one I'm currently in, software development. edit: I'm a relatively new arrival here, been paid to do it for ~1.5 years now, so I haven't yet had the opportunity to form a more specific aspirational sub-field. It's what I should have just done straightaway -- dad's an engineer, his dad was an engineer, half his brothers are engineers -- but I didn't for a variety of personal reasons I won't get into here. I was always fascinated by computers and by prog langs in particular -- a deep curiosity about how text could turn into action, although I wouldn't have framed it like that as a kid. But I was the sort of dork who would check out books on C++ as a 10 year old despite not having access to a compiler or any idea what I was doing. This fascination kind of took a backseat until I was out of law school, working, and slowly realizing how miserable I was at the thought of 40+ more years of what I was doing. So I took a long and circuitous route to get here, but now here I am, and eternally grateful for these sort of resources. Without them, the switch would have been way more difficult. It already took me 3 years of dedicated work; I can't imagine what I would have done without this stuff freely available. Probably would have had to pay to go back to school.